Driving from California to Texas was a test. When they say there is nothing on I-10, they mean it. It is one long and often windy drive.
The drive from California to Austin, TX can be done in as little as 27 hours if driving straight through. With rest stops and sleeping, it took us more like 3 days from Los Angeles to Austin.
The highlights of the drive included Brad's little cousins dressing up in mullet wigs, stumbling across El Dorodo Hot Springs, AKA "the best place to get naked" in Tonopah, AZ and a giant metal bird at a New Mexico rest stop
The lows included watching a line of cars full of families leave a state prison after visiting hours, Coming down with a bad cold and contemplating the idea of having to spend an extra sick day in a motel room that looked like it had been staged for an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
Facts:
The El Dorado Hot Springs are located seventy-five miles east of Quartzite, leave I-10 at Tonopah--Exit 94;
New Mexico visitor centers have free wi-fi, coffee and tons of tourist information. They don't make rest stops like that in California!
The hill country roads in Texas are actually more lush than California's Gold Country. Wild, eh?
